Non-Combatant

(Non-combatant, make it happen)

All but defeated

I took myself to shelter

Shunned other people

With only one exception, sometimes, you

The more of them I cut out

The quieter it became

But other people’s business

Will find you just the same

Will get to you the same

All but defeated

And the struggle left me

Wrung out and reeling

a broken version

of what for your sake I’d tried so hard to be

The poor non-combatant

Hung the flags out and looked away

But other people’s business

Is going to find you just the same

Non-combatant

Make it happen

Non-combatant

Make it happen

Poor non-combatant

Find your own way to engage

Other people’s business

Is going to find you just the same

It’s going to get to you the same